Eric Brandom

“Too political in a country too unstable"

The tradition of all dead generations should really weigh like more of a nightmare on some brains out there

Absolutely

+1

yesssss

Which is a beautiful idea but I don't think bears any relation to what these actual institutions are plausibly capable of doing.

Yeah. I mean I disagree with several specific claims she makes. But I take her to be saying, at bottom, this is an opportunity to present a united front. We are finally being asked, in fact, to do so. We should sit down and figure out what that is.

I still think that! But also that she is perhaps the victim, perhaps the perpetrator, of cruel optimism here.

We conducted this interview before the election, but the insights in this article from @DSchrantz about what it takes to organize a multiracial coalition that can contest for real power feels very more urgent now
hammerandhope.org/article/walz...

Hegel and Colonialism Cambridge Core - Classical Philosophy - Hegel and Colonialism

1/ I'm excited to share that Franz Knappik’s and my Cambridge Element on Hegel and Colonialism is finally out – open access below! We trace how Hegel defends European colonial rule, including transatlantic slavery, and how that defence runs through his entire philosophical system.

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The dog has been romping around in the oregano and getting the leaves stuck in his silly fluffy ears. Not the worst smell.

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

The old Eisenhower! Thought I recognized it.

As part of the larger transition out of capitalism into suburban communism, yeah

I regret to inform you that Marx & Engels have a solution to the vast problems besetting western democracies today stemming from the increasingly drastic urban-rural divide: "gradual abolition of the distinction between town & country via a more 'equitable' distribution of population geographically"

we should put one of those signs up on the front door of calvin

#litcrit pals, a really interesting question about the history of discipline from a graduate student here, a question that has me totally stumped:
"which journal in literary criticism was the first to implement modern peer review?" (I think he might mean blind review)
Thank you for your suggestions!

I see *several* food banks and drives for military-related folks all the time. There are constant questions about how to get WIC and SNAP in spouse groups.

If we get to the 12th with no confirmation of military pay, it will not be good.

Ah -- that looks very cool, will have to take a look. Thank you!

Thank you!

That description of her book project sounds like exactly what I want to read!

Ah hah! What I should do probably is look at her notes.

Yes, but as an occasional treat it's very nice

That guy was pretty good at words

Is there good recent historical work on the Barbary pirates? I know Colley has written about narratives of enslavement, but is there anything by someone using non-European sources in a significant way? 🗃️

Currency is important!

Ah hah! Awesome

I'm almost ready to look up the source to find out if my assumption about the relative value of the suits is correct.

This is from Hanna, *Pirate Nests* -- the note is to Herbert Heaton, "The Playing Card Currency in French Canada," American Economic Review, XVIII (1928), 649-662.

"Currency was so scarce throughout New France...during the 1680s and 1690s that the French had to pay their troops in playing cards cut into quarters and valued according to their suit."